Alec Baldwin
"New York is a very democratic place — billionaires and whores on the same street together," says Baldwin, photographed March 29 outside of New York's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
"New York is a very democratic place — billionaires and whores on the same street together," says Baldwin, photographed March 29 outside of New York's Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre.
“I have a great idea for a shot,” barks Baldwin as he leads us down West 45th toward Times Square, the busiest swath of concrete in Manhattan. He steps onto a stingy strip of median between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. Almost instantaneously, the Massapequa, Long Island, native is surrounded: Paparazzi seemingly materialize out of the smog-choked air, children circle him, and the bridge-and-tunnel throngs gawk at this quintessential New Yorker in his element. Beams Baldwin: “This is New York, right here. This is why I’ll never leave New York!”
"If I was all about money, I would have lived in L.A.," says Baldwin.
"I probably would have been much smarter if I settled out [in Los Angeles]. I just think it’s easier. You’re more available; you see people. There’s more surface area for you to connect. My agent once said something funny: 'It’s not that people think they want to work with you or don’t want to work. The problem is when they don’t think of you at all.'”
"I'm dying to see who they get to do the Oscars next year. They're going to have to go dig someone up from a cemetery. They're going to have to go dig up Bob Hope."
"It depends on the format and who it was for and what the schedule was like. Those guys that do talk shows have that terrible condition where they have to pretend everybody's special. I don't know if I could do that."
"As a process, it's more rewarding. Film is a director's medium — the director makes it into a movie. The actor doesn't make it into a movie. You're like an ingredient in a salad."
Dressed in a navy plaid blazer, fedora and baggy black jeans, he has lost 30 pounds thanks to a lifestyle change inspired by his yoga-teacher wife, Hilaria Thomas, who is pregnant with their daughter.
"You're probably going to be one of the last interviews I ever do," says Baldwin.